From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller Codependent No More, a riveting new book “about what to do when the pain has stopped and we’ve begun to suspect that we have lives to live.”
Here is Melody Beattie’s incredible story of her own final achievement of a new life. It is, in Beattie's words, a book "about what happens next."
In her first book, Beattie introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the self-sabotaging behavior patterns of codependency and outlined the principles of self-care. Here she moves beyond understanding to explore the dynamics of healthy recovery, the role recycling plays as a normal—even necessary—part of recovery, how positive affirmations can counter negative messages, and much more.
Informed by the same frank and affirming voice that made Beattie's first book a national bestseller, Beyond Codependency is for all those who don't just want to survive but are ready to grow in the realization that recovery from codependency is a life-long process.